I have some questions for you.
Q1: When referring to expanding the WA sub-ministry you are describing having the person in charge write recommendations. There has been some concern raised on the discord and elsewhere that there may not be enough numbers to adequately staff a WA ministry or sub-ministry. What would you say to people in the region that have those concerns?
Q2: What made you want the Granting Official to have extra duties?
Q3: As a follow on from the last question, do you have any plans to expand the Granting Official role beyond just regional recruitment and asking residents to become citizens. If you do not plan to make this a sub-ministry of Internal Affairs, for example, do you feel that Internal Affairs still has some role in doing outreach?
Q4: Under foreign affairs you mention discussing ending the war with the NPO after a discussion, would this discussion exclude presenting a peace treaty or Non-Aggression Pact agreed to by the NPO, as a framework for that discussion? A lot of past discussions on ending the war with the NPO have ended with no decision due to the uncertainty of our post NPO relations.
Q5: Internal affairs or activity generally can be a catch 22 situation, meaning if activity is not there, people are not interested in necessarily creating their own. There has been a lot of finger pointing and criticisms over activity, but not actually much stepping up to fix it. How do you plan to get people motivated to go out of their way to get involved, and not just sit on the sidelines? This is the same question I'll be asking the others in the race.
Q6: How do you plan to expand the number of members of the regional guard?
Q7: What sort of information would be looking to include in cabinet updates?
Q8: What is your favorite activity during the holidays?
Q1 - If the ministry cannot be staffed then we will continue what we are currently doing. However, I think that it may be possible to have recommendations to be written even with just one or two people that care about the WA. For instance, we could just relay the outcomes of forum votes and write a bare-bones recommendation based on that.
Q2 and Q3 - The Granting Offical only really does one thing, so, what if we gave the Granting Offical outreach permissions? This would not only give the Granting Offical something to do but would save us the need of appointing someone else. As to your second question, the Internal Management person should be more focused on the Cards Guild, Lazarene Gazzette, etc. which are currently under them than outreach. My proposed structure will alleviate some work from the Internal Management Director and put said work on someone who has fewer duties currently. So I want to spread out the work so that no one person is doing too much.
Q4 - We would discuss deciding the declaration of war. After some time we would vote on said proposal. If it passes then we would have a separate discussion on ending the proscriptions. We would then vote on that. If we end the proscriptions then we can discuss our future relationship. As for treaties, they would only be discussed if we end the proscriptions. Maybe, we could hold discussions on an Assembly Resolution on whether or not the region recommends that the Prime Minister reconstruct embassies at the current time.
Q5 - Firstly, with outreach and recruitment we will get new faces which can only help to increase activity. Hopefully, some will be interested in joining internal management. Secondly, I plan to appoint some newer faces into cabinet positions along with some older faces. This blend of the old and the new will help generate new ideas and thus help with the activity of the region. Promoting regional games, events, contests, etc. onsite and offsite will provide people with more to do which will generate more publicity, and get people more interested in joining ministries or becoming a shareholder.
Q6 - Doing more operations will get our name out there. So that will help. The Granting Offical will work with the Director of the Guard with TGs aimed at getting more people interested in the Guard. Furthermore, I think that we should publish what we do onsite. To show that we are active in the NS as a whole and to the Region showing people that we are worth joining.
Q7 - In my planned update will include statements from each member of the Cabinet stating what they have done/are doing with my thoughts at the end about the current state of the region.
Q8 - I think it is when I go and spend time with my family that I never see.